Israel announced that it had bombed military sites of the Syrian regime in Quneitra (southwestern Syria) in response to an attempt to plant improvised explosive devices in the occupied Golan, while Damascus said that its air defenses had resisted hostile targets.
In a statement, the Israeli army said that its warplanes and helicopters raided reconnaissance sites, anti-aircraft guns, observation points, intelligence-gathering mechanisms and command centers of the Syrian army in the Quneitra countryside.
The IDF did not specify the identity of the gunmen, but said that it considered the Syrian regime responsible for any operation that originates from its territory.
The Israeli army announced early Monday that its Magellan unit had foiled an attempt by 4 gunmen to plant explosive devices near a military site along the fence in the Syrian Golan, while the Al-Jazeera correspondent referred to information about the killing of members of the armed group during a military operation in which a military plane took part.
Hostile targets For
its part, the Syrian News Agency said that the Syrian air defenses resisted hostile targets in the sky of the southwestern countryside of Damascus, while activists reported that the new Israeli bombing targeted the Red Hill area in the southern countryside of Quneitra.
In the context, a Syrian military source reported that Israeli helicopters bombed some sites of the Syrian army in Quneitra.
The source said that the Israeli helicopters fired bursts of rockets towards the military sites, indicating that the damage was only material.
This development comes in light of the continuous Israeli military alert 11 days ago on the borders with Lebanon and Syria, in anticipation of a response by the Lebanese Hezbollah to the killing of one of its members recently in an Israeli raid near Damascus International Airport.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Syrian military sites under the pretext of responding to the firing of missiles at the occupied Golan, but during the past few years it has focused on targeting the Iranian military presence in Syria, especially near the occupied Golan.